In Ships Mail (SM, July) Andrew Mackinnon asks if the 15-year-old Albert Rickmers was the youngest ship ever to be broken up. The shipping business is very cyclical, and during economic downturns many vessels are broken up prematurely.

After the 1973 oil crisis, tankers were sent for lay-up after completion, and many were scrapped, including BP Tanker’s British Diplomat (1963/30,815gt), which was only 12 years old. Similar things happened during the 1930s Great Depression, most notably with Atlantic Transport Line’s large passenger cargo ships Minnewaska (1923/21,726grt) and Minnetonka (1924/21,998grt), which went to the breakers aged only 11 and ten years

At least 32,000 Merchant Navy personnel were killed or died during the war at sea between 1939 and 1945. One of those who survived was James Hamilton-Smith who, having served in the Merchant Navy in the 1920s, re-joined in July 1940. A series of notebooks and diaries he maintained, presented here by his grandson David Mitchell, reveal a little of the rudimentary training that British seamen were given, as well as a small part of the battle to beat the German U-boats.

James Hamilton-Smith was born in Wolsingham, County Durham on 21 February 1907. He joined the Merchant Marine in

John Hannavy tells the story of the tail ship Glen lee , a three-masted steel-hulled barque, launched fully rigged in December 1896 and now a museum ship at the Riverside Museum on Point house Quay, Glasgow.

It must have taken quite a leap of faith, and a good deal of imagination, on the part of the Clyde Maritime Trust back in the early 1990s to believe that the abandoned and vandalised hull of Glen lee, which then lay in an all-but-forgotten dock in Spain, could become the centrepiece of a new maritime museum. But today, lovingly restored to her former

Every evening at the Hurtigruten (Fast Route) pier in Bergen, Norway a ship slips her lines to begin a six-night coastal voyage, making 34 cargo and passenger calls at all hours of the day and night, en route to Kirkenes, the turnaround port beyond the North Cape close to the Russian border. The ships pause there three hours before returning southbound, arriving back in Bergen on the afternoon of the 12th day. That same evening, she’s off again.

To maintain the service, 11 ships are required, with ten of them roll-on, roll-off

Two liner were sent to the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York. World Trade Center is a complex of seven high-rise buildings, opened in 1973. Its dominant were the two 110-story towers — North, height 417 meters, and South — 415 meters. The first «Boeing» rammed the North Tower at 8:46 am between the 94th and 98th floors. It collapsed after a fire that lasted 102 minutes. Second liner hit the South Tower at 9:02, and 56 minutes it too collapsed. In the evening it collapsed another building complex. A third plane crashed into the

Company ThrushWave Technologies announced the start of work on a new space project — a game The Rift («break»). Genre — RTS, character — a fugitive swindler.

Fifteen years ago, son of a gun smuggler and Jacob whisker snuck on board, flying to a new, just and open Listings declared habitable planet called Proxima. The moment of his arrival, and is the beginning of the game: The planet was not so suitable for life, as promised, besides some cosmic neighbors were there with us, and the goal is the same: to find and destroy.

Our people made the beds to sunbathe and swim in the pits. If you spent the summer again, not where they wanted — you have a chance to go on a voyage, if not in reality, then certainly in the pages of Naked Science. We’ll tell you about the most incredible passenger ships, present and future — on the largest cruise liners and the most incredible technical solutions in shipbuilding.

OASIS AND CHARM

At all times, the main feature of ocean liners had their value. Perhaps no single work of human hands are not attracts as much attention as

Official transfer of the aircraft carrier customer accomplished on Saturday, November 16, 2013. The distinguishing feature of «Vikramaditya» — His winged arms. Specifically developed for the aircraft carrier ship the latest version MiG-29K/KUB. According to its characteristics, this plane was on today one of the best carrier-based fighters in the world. The main strike force at least some floating airfield — its carrier-based component. «Vikramaditya» has on board some of the best naval fighter of our time — single MiG-29K and MiG-29KUB double. They are able to firmly defend your own ship and deliver a crushing blow to

Official transfer of the aircraft carrier customer accomplished on Saturday, November 16, 2013. The distinguishing feature of «Vikramaditya» — His winged arms. Specifically developed for the aircraft carrier ship the latest version MiG-29K/KUB. According to its characteristics, this plane was on today one of the best carrier-based fighters in the world. The main strike force at least some floating airfield — its carrier-based component. «Vikramaditya» has on board some of the best naval fighter of our time — single MiG-29K and MiG-29KUB double. They are able to firmly defend your own ship and deliver a crushing blow to

Guests Forum Portal tut.by intensively open a discussion in the publication Barscheuski "Our field"In which he mentioned that the newly issued handbills on literature no certain works Kupala Bykov Shamyakin, but there Cherginets and Avrutin.Photographer says: "The only way out — the ancestors, that have impact on the education of kids out of school. But with this we even worse, because nobody is not necessary … "He objected Aleh_K: "Why anyone? I need. My friends need. For you, I hope, too. Teach kids will own, that’s just not enough of it."But meeshootkin in anticipation: "If we are in the program

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